I am an associate professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University. I work mainly in metaphysics, social philosophy, and feminist theory, but have interests also in issues at the intersection of metaphysics and other subfields, such as philosophy of language, mind, and logic, epistemology, and aesthetics. I have written on questions related to essence and modality, response-dependence, realism and anti-realism, naturalism, sex and gender, and social construction, and am working on a book manuscript on the metaphysics of social categories, entitled Categories We Live By, under contract with Oxford University Press. My CV.

A note on my name: Icelanders don't have surnames and our names thus best treated like that of medieval or ancient European names. This causes considerable confusion in academic publishing and I have thus decided to drop the rest of my name and publish under "Ásta". I still hope that people looking for the Icelandic philosopher Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir can find this page.